Short Film From The Rest Of The World

This week I have added a new global page to my short films website.


South America, Africa and Australasia are underrepresented on my website so this page is the first of two pages from the rest of the world. 


The first film on the page is No Support (Sin Sostén) by Mexican duo René Castillo and Antonio Urruti. This stop-motion animation was nominated for a Palm d'Or at Cannes in 1998. It sees a suicidal man climb onto the rooftop between two billboards - one with a busty pin-up advertising a bra (the title is a play on words!) and the other with a mounted cowboy. When the time comes to jump, these two  huge advertisements come to life...


The next film is Kibera Kid by Nathan Collett. I spent a long time searching the IMDb for short films from Africa and after watching a few decided Kibera Kid was the best. Collett is actually an American filmmaker who won a Fulbright Fellowship in 2006, allowing him to research and make films in Kibera, Africa's largest slum. 


Kibera Kid is one of the resultant pieces, a short fiction film focusing on a young member of a gang caught while on a stealing mission. He is saved from the baying mob by a do-gooder, but this man becomes the victim of the gang's revenge and our Kibera Kid is meant to deliver the fatal blow.


The final two films on my page of short films from the rest of the world are Signs by Patrick Hughes, and Alive In Joburg by Neill Blomkamp. I may have already blogged about these films but will leave them for another day today. Feel free to watch them in the meantime!